93% Northern girls lack secondary education – Sanusi

April 12, 2013 : Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja

CBN Governor, Lamido Sanusi | credits: File copy

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, on Thursday, decried the low literacy level in the North saying that 93 per cent of female children in the region lacked secondary education.

The apex bank boss, who said this at this year’s Isaac Moghalu Foundation Leadership Lecture and Symposium held in Abuja, said the situation, if left unchecked, was detrimental to the economy.

The governor sited Jigawa State, where school completion rate among female is as low as seven per cent as an example.

Net enrolment of girls in schools in the country, according to him, is 22 per cent.

He said, “In the North-West, 70 per cent of women between 20 and 29 are unable to read, compared to 9.7 per cent in the South West.

“Only three per cent of females complete secondary education in the Northern zone. Now how do you build the country when 93 per cent of the girls in the most populous region of the country do not complete secondary schools?

“We are only treating the symptoms and not the ailment. We are spending so much on security compared to education and healthcare services. We cannot succeed in security without fixing the original problems

“If the women are sent to school and they have access to proper healthcare services, there may not be need to spend so much on security.”

He described illiteracy among women in the region as frightening, adding that senior female officials in the country had not done enough to assist the women folk.

Sanusi said, “The problem we have is that women are their own enemies. If you are a female minister or hold an important public position and after four years you cannot say what you did for women, shame on you.

“Many of these women secure these positions on the platform of gender, ethnicity among others and when they get there, they forget the ladder on which they went there.

“They become the queen bee and do not want to share the limelight with other women.”

He charged women to hold their counterparts, in leadership positions to account, adding that such move would help to reduce neglect.

Also speaking at the event, the Executive Director of IMoF, Mrs. Maryanne Moghalu, said the foundation would continue to focus on key areas to assist the society.

The areas, she said, include human capital development through education for under privileged children, strategic learning infrastructure support for educational institutions, vocational skills training, and public policy advocacy.

Moghalu added that the foundation would also examine the success of the country in developing women to leadership positions.

She expressed the need for women to be well trained and prepared for leadership roles in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

Moghalu stressed that the absence of women in leadership position had been identified by many countries including Nigeria as a major challenge in the process of economic and social development.

The foundation was founded in 2005 in memory of Mr. Isaac Moghalu, one of Nigeria’s pioneer diplomats and a former permanent secretary.

I was one of the people he called
out and he prophesied to me that “by this time next month, I’ll be calling
him from outside the country” and I will start flying abroad at least
twice each month.

After the service, my friend that
went with me to the prophetic visitation service asked me how possible can the
prophecy be because I was just a tomatoes and fresh pepper seller in the market
and a widow.

if you put all my tomatoes and
pepper together, it cant be more than
N15,000 and the Bishop is talking about flying abroad. Even my neighbors both
at home and the ones that sells close to me at the market laughed at the
prophecy when I told them about it.

But it happened! 3 weeks after the
prophecy, I went to the market as usual to sell my tomatoes when a woman who came
with one of her domestic staffs to buy food stuffs suddenly called my name
after staring at me for some minutes as I was packaging the tomatoes she came
to buy from me.

At first I didn’t recognize her but
latter did when when she told me she was my best friend in secondary school
back at Ilaje in Ondo state and we haven’t seen for close to 20 years. we lost
contact when she traveled abroad after our secondary education. To make my testimony short, that was how I followed her
to her house and I saw that she was very wealthy, she has shops both in Dubai
and here in Nigeria.

I told her all my problems and she
asked me to move in with my two kids my husband died and left for me into her
mansion and within one week, she processed my traveling documents and I went
with her to Dubai in her next trip.

Today, she no longer travels much, I
do the traveling to China, Dubai, Paris and Italy to import goods for her shops
and also do supply of my own.

He was my neighbour in Lagos far back in 2003 before he relocated abroad. It
was two flats in our compound. I and my family occupied one and the bishop and
his staffs where in the other. So you can see that I knew him very well.

I didn’t hear of him for a long time after he traveled until I came to Abuja
last month to pursue some contract as usual when I saw his billboards every
where and I coped out the church address which I visited and he was glad to see
me. he prayed for me and said in 14 days, I would be a millionaire. It was not
funny because there was nothing I hadn’t done to turn my situation around. i
sad to him, Daddy prophet, as I am talking to you, I even borrowed money to
come to Abuja to pursue one building contract, I have done a lot but it seems
the more I work hard, the harder things become for me. I have been to seasoned
prophets but no turn around. my wife feeds I and my 3 kids from her meager salary
she earns as a teacher.

When the prophet prophesied, I believed the prophet because I have known him
for years and all the great things God has been doing through him when we were
in Lagos together.

After I attended Bishop’s prophetic service, My phone that nobody calls
because every body seem to have forgotten if someone like me exists all of a
sudden started ringing with people calling to ask me to do business with them
and making enquiries.

Two weeks later as the Bishop prophesied, I was in the sitting room eating
eba with my two daughters one Wednesday night when I heard my phone rang to
notify me of a text message. I opened it and wow, it was an alert of
30,000,000. I mean 30 million credited into my account. It was like a dream
because that account balance was 0.00 Naira balance and hadn’t visited
the bank for a long time. I thought it must have been a mistake but when I
checked the name of the company that made the transfer into my account, I saw
that it was a company I once introduced to another company abroad to do some
business and I went there for almost two years for my payment but I was been
told one story or the other, I got frustrated and forgot about them thinking
they’ll never pay me again. I didn’t even know my own company’s percentage
would be that much but today you can tell the rest of the story.

Cars and houses of my own appeared over night that my former neighbours that
knew me and thought nothing good will ever come out of my life are saying now
that i went to do money rituals. hahahahahahaha

Thank you my most lordship Bishop Solomon Koleayo.

-Samuel Kenechukwu, Lagos Nigeria

_________________________________________

When i heard about what God does with Bishop Koleayo in Abuja, I had to visit
him because i needed serious prayers for protection because many attempts had
been made on my life both spiritually and physically.

Some of my political opponents wanted me

dead.

Few weeks after i visited Bishop Koleayo, i drove into my compound after the
days work. As soon as i entered my bed room, i heard gun shot sounds inside my
compound & before i could think of what was going on, i heard some men
shouting in my sitting room, where is chief? where is chief? It then dawn on me
that as i drove in, the men whom i latter discovered where assassins drove
behind me, entered my compound after me & shot my security man at the gate
six times and my driver who was also outside four times before entering my
sitting room where they met my wife, kids & others living with me. They
just asked everyone they met at the sitting room to lie down & was asking
for me in particular. I had just stepped into the house & went to my bed
room to freshen up when i heard the gun shot sounds outside.

I first thought they where armed robbers as it’s was becoming a usual thing
around our area at that time but i was confused on what to do as i was hearing
them shouting & asking after me.

I quickly opened my ward robe where i kept the anointed water & as i was
anointing my forehead with it, two of the men kicked my bed room door open with
riffles in their

hands, i was so afraid & confused that i fell on my bed thinking i had
died but i was surprised & i am still surprise because i was on top of the
bed

looking at the two hefty men carrying sophisticated weapons scattering my
bed room in search for me. they opened my wardrobe & checked under my bed
but didn’t see me that was on the bed looking at them. I was invisible to them.
I could see them clearly but they didn’t see me.

That was how they left.

I have heard of miracles but i never knew it works this way.

Thank you so much Bishop.

Chief Efosa, Benin City.

_________________________________

I represents the Bishop’s constituency in the

federal house of representatives.

When i first met him, i was a special adviser to the

then state governor. Bishop prayed for me & gave me some revelations that i

was going federal, he said he saw 7 people who are interested in the place God

is taking me to & i was at the front with the other six behind me but

somehow, someone came & dragged me to the back. He said i should pray

seriously so that, i that is the head should not be made the tail. honestly, i

didn’t understand all he meant until it was time to vie for the office of the

house of representatives.

As Bishop earlier prophesied, it was exactly 7 of us

that bought the ticket to contest for the party primaries to become our party’s

flag bearer which we slogged out and i won but as we where celebrating &

campaigning, we didn’t know what happened & how it happened, my name was

substituted with another person’s name at the party head quarters to be the

party’s flag bearer for the general elections.

I was confused & unhappy. I then remembered that

Bishop had once prophesied it four years before now.

I called him, he kept praying for me & assured

me that i would be given back my ticket which seemed impossible for many people

as it doesn’t happen easily in the places like where i come from but it

happened as Bishop said it. The ticket was returned to me few nights before the

elections, i ran for the general election & i won.

It also happened few years ago when my Lexus SUV was

snatched from me by some gun men, i called the Bishop, out of all the prophets

i contacted, He was the only prophet who told me i was going to get my car

back. It took many months that i even forgot the car but anytime i get to meet

or speak with Bishop, with so much confidence, he would assure me my car would

be found & it was found miraculously at Ibadan.

Bishop, i & my family holds you in high regards

for all the numerous things God has used you to do for us and this generation.

you are all thieves. who ever is foolish enough to get lured into your den deserve whwtever they get. you exploit innocent pples desperation to make money off them, may god pay you back in ten fold. bishob ko, bishob ni. bishob my foot. thievies!!!!!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/martins.udoh.71 Martins Udoh

@Ronke The Real Authentic Almighty God, Jehovah Bless you….Fraudulently take undue advantage of gullible people to defraud and impoverish them the more….I can bet my life these stories and so called testimonies are all by one thief!!…so join you in saying bishop ko, bishop ni

Life is Good

The North has ruled the nation more than almost two third since independence. Malam should go and ask the leaders what they did with all that privilege and stolen funds. It is not the duty of the West or the East to educate the North, thats the duty of their leaders so dont blame other regions if they failed to do that, blame them and hold them accountable. By the way I thought you guys agreed with Boko Haram by failing to condemn them instead seeking Amnesty for them and knowing fully well they do not want schools in the North. What have you Northern Leaders done about that cos none of you ever voiced a public disagreement?

adesola

Go and tell BOKO HARAM

shi kena

t1

I guess this guy just wanted to be heard talking, Boko haram said they don’t want any school in the north. Even northern leaders to want to see their children in school, and you are talking about illiteracy. I believe you mean the opposite of what you said.

Ayo Ogedengbe

That’s the fault of your faulty religion called Islam and that’s why Boko is haram in Muslim dominated countries, especially for women.

james

did anyone read this line, or was I the only one that read it? sanusi said “He charged women to hold their counterparts, in leadership positions to account, adding that such move would help to reduce neglect.”
Is this another call for WOMEN BOKO HARAM (reloaded)

http://twitter.com/diipsot sotannde oladipupo

Wetin concern agbero with overload? You shall sleep on your bed as you lay it.

Tony Aneni

Go and tell your ACF and NGF (Aliyu) that story. The dominance of the North in the leadership of this country has lead to even more supression of the north and promotion of Almajeri which has grown to Boko Haram killing teachers, burning schools and killing innocent girls that wishes to attend secondary education. Maybe sanusi is pushing to be the next sultan or governor of his state.

Gaskiya

DO YOU WANT TO BLAME ANYBODY. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS TO BE BLAMED , I GUESS YOU CHECK ON YOUR LEADERS. SHIKENAN

concernnigerian

I think this man has no sense of purpose or direction, he his gradually becoming a nuisance to himself and the nation at large. However, it will be best if the government can replace him with someone competent to occupy his post, because this is the worst central bank Governor we’ve had as a nation in history. The sustainability of the currency and the economy should be his utmost priority but unfortunately he his not up to the task of been a man enough to take up that responsibility hence he try to get involve with other people scope of work.

chudi

listen to yourself..am not sure you read the passage…now read the modified version..Sanusi was invited as a guest speaker at Isaac Moghalu Foundation Leadership Lecture and Symposium and theme of the lecture borders on Female education…now Sanusi said on quote ““We are only treating the symptoms and not the ailment. We are spending
so much on security compared to education and healthcare services. We
cannot succeed in security without fixing the original problem”… Can you now get the point, if you dont ,then I cant help you any further.

okyy22 simon

education is Haram .

http://www.facebook.com/ronke.ibara Ronke Ibara

shouldnt someone tell this thieves & brainwashers mental dominators to stop hijacking serious discussions on punch? this man is a fraud & what frauds do these days because many pple have gotten wise is to employ some fake testimony givers to lure pple do these days to force innocent troubled souls to their den of evil is aggrssive publicity. my heart bleeds each time i see these paid thieves with their lying testimonies hijacking seriouse national discuss. punch needs to get involved if not your page will become an avenue of exploiation of innocent souls

Okoko

Open the door of your Kule and let your women be liberated.

http://twitter.com/youagreedornot oteg

attention seeker. Mallam Sanusi know all this but he never for one day call Boko Haram in other or you people will blame Jonathan for this?

alf

This is the exact music they are playing into the ears of america and other countries whereby whiping up sentiments and denials of the fact that the backwardness in terms of poverty and illetracy etc in the north is self inflicted, because I know same standard of mediocrity, bad leadership runs everywhere in nigeria! The question is why is it that this region of the country remians backward in all indices of development? Why is it that these situations are not recognized and mentioned during the time the region was in power? Why why why? The simple answer is, this scenario was self inflicted, judging what has happened in nigeria by its past leaders the whole countries development and progress has nosedived adding to the self infliction of the northern region to itself due to variuos reasons that are known by all! The simple solution to get to the not too good level of other region is to change your ways but unfortunately you are nosediving more by bokoharam activities again; wao Mr central bank governor tell your people and leaders of your region to make a u-turn of 180 degrees from whatever that is holding them bondage either political greed or religiuos encomberances aferall it is not even close to good over the other side of the country! And stop sounding political with statistics you are a CBN governor your statistics should aid economic inteligence and development not political pointers thats just the line I always disagree with you but I concur you are an intelligent man!

http://www.facebook.com/ronke.ibara Ronke Ibara

that religion is the type that thrives on ignorance. until they tone down on the empty rhetorics handed down to them by dead pple, they can hardly make any progress. their mindset needs a lot, lot & lots of work evn plus including sanusi himself

ken

these so called northern elites are senseless and selfish. the poor in the north suffer from girl child drop out of school problem which has nothing to do with federal government policy but all to do with the kind of Islam practice in the northern Nigeria . sanusi should direct his problem to Islam in the north so that they can solve it with Malaysian kind of Islam not Taliban or Afghanistan they have adopted

Austin, Toronto, Canada

Sanusi forgot to mention that his northern brothers (boko haram) does not want the girls to be educated.

onuigbo

It is unfortunate to notice that in the Northern Nigeria it is the educated and finacial successful ones, that do not send their daughters to school. Most they do send to Islamists reading classes. They love to marry them young and ignorant, so that they can imposed on the Islamic injunctions of obediency, ignorant and control of their minds. Education of the parents is the key, and successful northern ladies must demind education for their daughters and link it to their religious duties. The problem is getting worst. Divocing easily is the tool Northern men use to get young, hungry, uneducated, under age girls and easily impressed new wives.

gamma energy

What
Mallam Sanusi chose not to tell us is that there is no special federal
government program that favors the South West, which has only 9.7% of women
that cannot read. That is where families
and state governments come in. He also
failed to mention that among Southern zones it is only in the South West that a
sizeable percentage of the population belongs to the same religion with over
90% of Northerners. Finally, he was
silent on the fact that many Northern states, based on population figures assigned
to them, receive more federal allocation than South Western states. The three
factors mentioned above, therefore, clearly eliminates funding and religion as
the main culprits. Until Northerners recognize that they need a thorough
reorientation with regard to education in general and the place of women in
particular, their future will continue to be bleak, and it will continue to be
a drag on the Nigerian economy.

Tony Ezeifedi

SANUSI’S LAMENTATIONS:

Sometime ago Sanusi said that Boko Haram was caused by poverty. Now he is talking about female illiteracy in the North. For me, the issue of poverty and illiteracy in the North baffles me.. The North has ruled Nigeria for almost 40 years out of 52 years of Nigeria’s existence. And most of this period was under the military which enjoyed absolute power.

What the Northern military succeeded in doing was to create a class of billionnaire generals and politicians. Aliko Dangote, today, is the richest man in Africa and he is a northerner. Gen. T. Y. Danjuma is among the 10 richest men in Africa. He is also from the North. And other generals (some of them gap-toothed, some in dark goggles) who satisfied themselves from the public till.

So how do we justify or explain poverty in the North? Even one of the northern generals went as far as saying that money was not Nigeria’s problem but what to do with money. The general was so foolish that by the time he was saying this, there was no potable water in his village and the whole Eastern region was still in ruins caused by the war.

The cost of Minna International airport which Gen. Babangida built for himself and his wife can build 1000 primary schools. How many people from Niger state and indeed the North use airports? Are they up to 0.0001%?

Lest we forget, the 5 primary schools in my village were built by us villagers, not by government. Our secondary school was built by us. Some parts of this country have been so over-pampered that they cannot do any thing for themselves.

One question I have for Sanusi is: if Boko Harm was caused by poverty, was it the people that are being killed in the churches and motor parks that caused the poverty or are they up to something else? Don’t Boko Haram members know the generals and politicians that cornered the resources belonging to the Northern region. Please Mr. Sanusi, call a spade a spade and use it as a spade.

Have a nice day!

Tony Ezeifedi

http://www.facebook.com/ronke.ibara Ronke Ibara

thanks man @ tony. they not thinking before they talk. let them open their d backyard & let the poor women out. i served in borno state a long time a go & it was a culture shock for an abeokuta girl what women suffered evn way back them. see foolish pple. few stinkinly rich men in the midst of profound poverty, them are all poor. imagine with all their misery, their youths still insist education is haram. sometim i wonder what planet them pple are from. too dumb for this century.

concernnigerian

@chudi,thanks for your insight it well appreciated. No further explanation will be needed.

change

Mr cbn boss, the high rate of illiteracy in the region is caused by the northerner themselves, the way and manner the region take religion and culture make her to be backward in terms of education, the south west, east and south value education more than religion and culture. so, sanusi blame yourself and the fathers in the region for the backwardness

S. Aliyu

Sanusi, what is the source of your claims and all the percentages you are quoting black mailing the whole of the northern region?

this life

why is the Mallam twisting facts? is it only women in office that have the responsibility of improving the lives of women and children? are there not govt. institutions responsible for that, why not blame them? why not blame the northern leaders including your self that have allowed degradation of education under your watch? why not blame your northern pedophiles in power that force teenage girls into infant marriage instead of going to school? why not blame the impression of your religion that don’t regard the usefulness of women in society but only for mass production of almajiris.. how many schools have you built in your village? how many children have you given free books and uniforms?

the mallam is quick to call figures and point fingers. i am sure that the next comment he will make is that there is nothing wrong with infant marriage since the girls are not educated. we can see that these clueless northern elites now see the female gender as problem of the northern.

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